Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 1, Decatur, Adams County, 2 January 1952 — Page 1

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PLANS INTERNAL REVENUE HOUSE-CLEANING

UN Agrees To L. ' ■ 1 •/"'• ;■ ■ Demand To Free All Prisoners ' . Gives Compromise Formula To Release All War Prisoners . Paumunjom, Korea, Jan. 2—(UP) —TheUnited Nations agreed today to a Communist demand for the release oft all war prisoners during an armistice, but only under a complex compromise formula. The U.N. previously had held out , for a straight . man-for-man'- exchange which would have left more than 104,000 of the 116.000 Communist in allied hands after all 11,559 allied prisoners had been y • - The hew .U.N. proposal provides for the release of all war prisoners and civilian internees held by . both sides and also would oblige the Communists to free 50,000 to 70,000 captured South Korean troops ii> , ducted into the Red armies. The Communists’ first reaction . ' was unfavorable. The U.N.’s Vear admiral R. E. Libby said he got the impression they thought “it , stinks.” , \ y But Libby said he 'didn’t believe the Communists fully understood the formula. He said they agreed to. study .the isix-point compromise proposal overnight and give a fuller answer at" the prisoner subcommittee meeting at 11- a.m. Thursday (8 plm. "Wednesday CST), Thesecopd subcommittee work- • ipg on supervision of a truce made _ no progress during a 54-minute meeting and also adjourned until 11 a.m. Thursday. It still was deadlocked over the Communist demand tot the rigbt' to repair and hulld North Kprean airports during a truce. ’ Libby presented the U.N.’s new formula for release of war prisoners with these words: “YoUr side wants all the prison- ’ era of war to be released following the sighing of an armistice. The U.N. command agrees that this should be done under an equitable formula.” > < • He said the U.N.’s formula would work this way: 1. —All war prisoners who want to go home will be exchanged first, beginning on a man-for-man basis, i ■ South Koreans impressed into the Red armies would be reclassified as war prisoners for this purpose., - ‘ 2.—The Communist prisoners remaining after all U.N. f prisoners have been released will be exchanged for interned civilians and displaced persons, also oh a man-for-man basis. V y.’' 3. —.All other displaced persons ‘ - who want to go home will be permitted to do so, regardless of number. .A. ■ . 4. dill war prisoners released in» excfian’ge for civilians shall be placed under parole not to bear arms against the side which releases r them. * b/ 5. Delegates of the international. 1 committee! of the Red Cross shall Vlnterview all. prisoners and all civilians affected to make sure that none is repatriated against his will. 6. —Ail war pHsohers who elect not to return home also shall be placet! on parole not to fight again .in the Korean conflict. I ! * ’ Intefna 1 Revenue Collector Here There Will be a deputy collector rs internal revenue available at • the offices in the Reppert building every week-day during the tax filly ing period, it was made known today. , • AU persons with federal tax problems or questions call at the offices any, week-day between 8:30 a. m. and i p. 4n. The office will not be open to the public on Saturdays. ’ ■ 11 Wagner Infant Dies * Monday At Muncie Graveside services were held afternoon in Muncie for Jill Marie Wagner, fiveweek-old * r daughterFof Wayne and Max Ellen I Liniger-Vyagner, 3110 Ethel Avenue, —Muncie,'?who died early Monday' morning at her home. The child i was ‘ born November 29, 1950, in VMuncie, and had been ill since birth/ Surviving besides the parents are the grandparents, Mrs. Mabel Linlger of route two, and Mr. and Mrs. Peter Wagner of Hammond.

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Physician, Mother Die In Plane Crash 1 ’ Greenville,l Ky., Jan. 2.—(Up)—' Civil aeronautics authorities today investigated the crash of a small private plane near here yesterday afternoon, which killed Dr. George A. Stevenson, about 57, of Harvey, HL, and his mother, Mrs. Jeanette Stevenson. 83. Stevenson, after circling around this area in a heavy fog, brought \his plane in low4n an apparent effortto land on the farin of Vernon and Clifton Jenkins. The plane struck a wiie between the farmhouse and th® barn, and crashed. _ ... - Says Truman To Reveal Plans Within Month Ohio Congressman Says Intentions To ' Be Known By Feb. 6 Washington, Jan. 2 —y (UP) —* A Democratic congressman from Ohio said tdday that President Truman told him he hopes to an-’ bounce his political intentions for 1952 before Feb. 6. deadline for. filing in the Ohio Democratic primary. m « ’ 1 I Rep. Wayne Li Hays (D-O.) discussed the political situation at some length with the' chief executive and said he asked him directly' if he is ready to say whether he will run* again. Hays will support St n: Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) for the \1952 Democratic presidential nomination v ..if Mr. Truman | decides not to 'run. < l i Hays said the president told him he Is not ready to announce ‘his intentions. The congressman said he askeq Mr/ Truman fdr some definite information in advance of the Feb. 1 6 deadline in Ohjo by which time delegates to the Dejnocratic convention must file. J Oliio delegates tq th? convention when filing must state their first and second choices for Jpr’esldent, unless they support a native son. ' ' Hays pointed out that these choices may be stated only with tlte written consent of the prospective presidential candidate. “The president said he he could work the situation nut so we -would know J>y Feb. 6,” Hays said. . ‘ Reporters, making a careful est fort to Be sure they understood Hays; asked If he meant that ithe president would ’declare his Own personal intentions by Feb. 6. “He said he hoped to do that,” (Turn To Page Four) <6 : -- t ~ ~ . Heart Attack Fatal x r i 1 To Herman Bohnke Funeral Services Friday Afternoon Herman W. Bohnke, 48, Root township \ farmer,, died of a heart attack at 10:15 o’clock>this mdrning. \ He was driving on federal highway 27 in the northwest part of Decatur when stricken. He was found by city police and taken/to the Adams pounty memorial hospital, f where he was pronounced dead bn arrival. , j. ;J i , He was born in Root township Nov. 24, 194)3. a son of Claries and Emma Franz-Btohnke. His .first wife. Louise Bienz. died in 1935, and he later married Sophie krueckeberg. J |< ■ „ He was a member of St. Peter’s Lutheran church. . Surviving in addition to hjs wife are his mother, who resideS lh Root township; two sons, Willmott and Lenhnford, bqth at home; tyro brothers, Christ of qnion toWnship nad Alvin fb Root township; and three sisters, Mrs. Macke’ of Allen pounty, Mrs. Ida Fuelling of Root township and Mrs. Morris Bleeke of Union township. j - Funeral services will bp j conducted at 1:30 p. m. Friday, at the Zwick funeral home: add aL,2 o'clock at the St. Peter’s Lutheran church/ the Rev. F. W. Droegemue’ler officiating. < Burial will be ip the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening. \ i

Leads Rescuers To Survivors Os Air Crash > B^ 1 B'IB THE FOURTEEN SURVIVORS of this crash of a Pittsburgh-to-Buffalo ijrllner owe much to Geprge Albert, 30, (upper right), one of the 40 aboard,: whobeat his way througl snow-choked roads to a farmhouse to phone for help? The plane crashed near Sa lamandca. in soutji vestern New York. Albert led rescuers to the crash scene where 13 others were “found to have survived. | -- Jjr J' ' ;r l- U‘ j- '

Dr. Burk Appointed County Physician All Other Officers Are Reappointed Members of the board of county commissioners managed to keep tieir house in order — and their cfficial family, intact—-by simply reappointing everyone so present positions. One addition, w r as made, though, whan the position of county physician was filled by naming Dr. James M. Burk to the post. The ounty had been; an official physician since the resignation of Dr. Jt/hn Terveer last summer. | \ ■ » . Otherwise, it was merely the cfiore \of running down the list, aj majority of the board saying ’ |rea” each 'time, and 1952 business was thus begun. . <. Included in the business the annual inventory, of the county’ l.ibme, riiade py appraisers Palmer Augsburgetj, (if Hertford township, ajud" Rufus Scherry, of Preble twonship, the latter a substitute for previously named Martin Bloihenberg. Commissioners took care of themselves first, by reelecting Qtto Hoffman chairman and Lewis Worthman vic'e-chairman for the, jjear, then proceeded with the other positions.' ’Others named, in addition to Er. Burk, included Ed A. Bosse as c rnnty attorney: Frank Singleton, s iperin.tendent of the highway departement with Phil Strahm, superintendent of the first district; Tom Johnstpn., superintendent of Hio second district; Elmer Beer, third district and Nathan Moeslchbterger, fuorth flistrict. All other personnel of the highway departiik?t were reappointed. A: M., Hoffman was re-named custodian of the -county highway garage and Mrs. Hazel Gallogley Was reappointed matron of the ebunty court house. j Lester Stuckey, of Geneva,? was reappointed to fdui- more years as a) member the board of trustees p| the Adams county memorial hospital.- b ' \ \ Mayor of Rushville Can't Enter Office Rushville, Ind., Jan.. 2—(UP)— Republican William Winship, sworn in as, this city’s mayor in New Year’s day ceremonies, couldri’t enhis city hall office today. He h?d no key. ' Democratic mayor Russell Coons, defeated by Winsfiip in'municipal ejections’, declined to turn over the kby and locked both doors of the mayor’s office ■ yesterday. C t oons said he wanted to await court action Thursday on his suit which claims Winship is - f ineligible because of vote fraud in the Nov. 6 municipal ejection. [•Coons also asked his department h?ads to remain in power until a ruling is issued by a special judge, iifj Rush circuit court. But the po- 1 lljce chief in Coons’ administration surrendered his badge to his successor, under protest.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday,January 2,1952?

Catholic Schools To A • ■ Reopen Next Monday The floors in the claas and study rgoms of the Catholic high and grade school are being sealed and waxed and for that reason classes will not be resumed ' until next Monday. The school closed last December 20 for the Christmas vacation. The' second semester will open January 28, Sister M. Rosemary, principal, announced * City Officials Take / Office Here Tuesday i Committees Are Appointed By Doan City department heads were sworn in Tuesday noon in yje city council’s abbreviated meeting that was adjourned in. continued session until next Tuesday'. At the same time. Mayor John M. Doan made known his council cordmittees for the coming four years at the meeting. Those', taking an oath included street commissioner Floyd Acker, city attorney Robert S. Anderson, police chief James Borders; fire chief Cedric Fisher, board of public works and safety member Donald F. Gage, light and powefr superintendent L. C. Pettibone And city engineer Halph E. Roop. All cjouncilmen had previously received th'pir oath of office from county clerk Ed Jaberg when they obtained their certificates qf election. . ‘ ' Mayor Doan, city attorney Anderson and Gage are included in the board of public works and safety, Gage Replacing councilman Joe Krick, viho did not peek reelection. Mayor Doan named Al Beavers to serve as chairman of the water committee, whose members include Hugh[ K. Engle and Donald Gage; street and sewer committee personnel includes Gage, chairman, Adolph Kolter and Edwin Bauer. Park committee—Engle, chairman, Bauer and Kolter; finance— Kolter, chairman,; Beavers and Engle; ordinance —Bauer, chairman,, Kolter and Gage; electric light—Ettgle, chairman, i Beavers •nd Gage. I South Bend Woman Dies Os Injuries South Bend, Ind., Jan. 2—(UP) — Mrs. Emma Garn, 65, victim of a Christmas eve traffic collision near Valparaiso, died in .Memorial hospk. tai yesterday of her injuries. The car in which she was riding with son collided witli a tfuck. The son and the truck driver were Injured. INDIANA WEATHER Freezing rain and sl?«t south and central portions northward bto Lafayette-Fort Wayn? line, and light snow becoming mixed with slset extreme north portion tonight and Thursday. ? Little change In temperature. Low tonight 16-24 Aorth, 24-30 south. High Thursday 22-28 north, 28-32 south.

Many Purchase 1952 Aufo License Tabs ’ Business Is Brisk k At Pecatur Bureau “Business,” said Mrs. Dale Death, manager of the Adams county license bureau, “Is brisk.” Today is the firxt -day the 1952 slates went on sale, and an hour before noon Mrs. Death estimated Chat “more than 100 persons” had -obtained their plates. v "So far,” she said, “everyone has remembered to bring their tax •receipts, which has made it easier £oif us.” She pointed out that each year there-is a considerable number of persons who forget this item, who have to return a second time. \ ’ . ' -■ i Motorists still have two months to get the abbrevjated plates which are to be attached to the present license plates*. The deadline'is February 29. ■■ . • “There were ’times this morning,” Mrs. Death related, “when you couldn’t see the front door because of the line of\cus.tomers.” Business fluctuated, though, and shortly before noon the line had dlminishqdi * ; However, Mrs. Death anticipated business to remain “brisk" for the less than 60 days remaining whdp motorists can obtain' their new license plates — which are much smaller though just as costly as previously. < Miller Infant First Born In New Year ■J ■ b K j Probable Winner Os Annual Baby Derby While the official determination will not be handed down for another 24 hours, so far Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Miler, of route I, are the parent winners of the New Year’s day sweepstakes, sponsored annually by Decatur merchants. The New Year was almost 12 hours old when seven pound, 15 punce Carolyn Millers’ first child —was born in the Adams county memori|al ' hospital. The exaet time listed by the. records there Was i1:24 a. m. Tuesday, only moments before the customary spank took place and the |>aby let out its first squawk. ' The annual baby derby is always delayed because there might be some eligible northern county t’rths reported later from out-of-eounty. hospitals or from homes in th® six. townships. / Mrs. Miller is the former Alma Williams. Maternal grandparents tre Mr. and Mrs. Charles Williams of Hoagland, and paternal grandparent? 60. Mr. and Mrs. Herman MUler, of 1321 West Monroe street.

Eliminate Offices Os 64 Collectors; Place tTnder Civil Service ’ - ■ ■■ • • i,.j , : • .

i ■ Seven Holiday Plane Crashes Take 65 Lives Three Other Planes Reported Missing Aiyith 13 On Board , 1 .. By United Press an plane crashes killed 65 persoii# during the long holiday week* nd and Rescue crews toddy. sough; three other planes missing with U total of <l3 persons. The worst single crackup took 28 lives when an air force C-47 thudded ir to a rocky crag near th? of Lookout mountain, 65 miles northedst of Phoenix, Ariz. Nineteen of the dead were West Point cadets. j Arnold .Johnson, a cowboy and the only person td reach the crash scene, was toi lead' a rescue pgrty up th» mountain trail today to recover the bodies of the victims. said the plane hit with sudh force that wreckage and bodieu were scattered oyer an area of 10) yards. Clothing was torn from the bodies oft dome of the The plane was en route from Hamilton ajir force base in California to Williams, air force base at Chandler. Arid.,, when it disappeared dixing a rainstorm Sunday afternoon, ’jl’hd cadets were returning frjm Christmas leave. The latent aviation mishap pc-i currec near Greenville, Ky., Tuesday vhen a small private plane crashed in heavy fog, killing Dr. Georg j A. Stevenson of Harvey, 111., and lis nftother, Mrs. Jeanette Stevbnson, $3. They were flying to Florid i when Stevenson attempted to land 09 a farm and struck a wire, causing him to crash. The; crash of a non-scheduled C-46 killed ,26 persons near Salamanca, Saturday, but 14 others surveyed he crash. Thoiie who lived were removed from he densely ' wooded area of the drj.ckup after 30yeai>pkr George Albert made his way to a farm house and reported the crash by telephone. I"' I •.[ But during the 40* hours before \theic ( escue, the survivors huddled in a< makeshift shelter fashioned from clothing. They ate snow and what fopd they could salvage from the Christmas packages they had brought on the flight. 1 They were constantly afraid of freezing to death so they slept in five-minutenaps, rousing each other n ! turns. One of the most heart-breaking incident? of the crash wi| when (Turn To Pa*e Seven) T — Classes Resumed In Public Schools Students Following Vacation ' With the exception of the Decatur .Catholic Schools, the county's hundreds of students returned to classes today following the holidays. I I ■ For many of the county students, it had been a pleasant absence from classed with many of the schools closed ; several day? prior to the scheduled date befbre Christmas when heavy snoWs clogged the highways , 1 made travel almost impossible In many sections. [ Students in the Catholic Schools will return j next Monday, Tt has been aln?oun?ed. Repair Work on the building, now underway, necessitates the delay. So now it's the return to all those classes; all those books and all those teachers' cross-eyed looks; but of the students Till spend their idle moments dreaming of the next short vacation. That is usually ailong about Easter time. \ / A'i ■4- : '

Dies Today v w s - Bp. . *■ a > / ' . .? 'W* a Ws? (■f ■ Hansel L. Foley Hansel Foley, County School Head, Is Dead Superintendent Os Schools Os County Dies At Hospital County superintendent of schools Hansel L. Foley died t >day ih the Billings hospital, Chicago, where he < was taken Jast Thursday for specialized treatment. Foley was just 51 wheh he died, born in Wells county Dec. 16, 1900. He was graduated from Tocsin high school, later from Indiana University,\in 1925,1 and earned his master’s degree from Ball State Teachers college. Mr* Foley served more than 25 year? as an educator, most of it in Adams county. He was principal of Kirkland, Pleasant Mills; and Monmouth hi£h schools, succeeding to the superintendency from the latter institution in June, 1949. 1 Me assumed the office of superintendent in August of that year; and immediately began his policy of bringing fuller curriculums td the schocls in the county. Mr, .Foley was ons of the foremost and earliest advocates of the school lunch program in the county, instigating the woilk while still principal and continuing iV tirelessly while superintendent. His plans were almost completed before his death, with practically \every county sehool ? participant in: the program. Since he took office, most of the had enlarged their agricul-, tural programs as well as vocational classes* much of it due to the perserverence of h)(r. Foley. He formerly owned a grocery and service station business in Preble, combining the business with his school activities,, and several years ago he purchased the Standard Oil pumping station in Preble that is now a canning factory. He was married to th® former Mildred Coppess, who served ?s assistant in bis office, and who survives him as does on® son, Odell, a junior at Indiana Univerelty. He is also survived by three brothers, Iftvin, Ohio City, O.< Jftima, 0., and Ed, Cleveland, and J one sister, Mrs. Edna Jaberg, of The body will be returned to the Zwtck 'funeral home in this city. Funeral services-have not been conipleted< Mr. Foley was seriously ill about two months before his death*. He was previously in the Billings hospital for a two week period, brought back to his home in Preble, then returned to the hospital last Thursd#y ■ Deadline To Order Yearbook Is Friday Hugh J. Andrews, 1 < principal of 1 the Decatur high school announced ' today that any persons wishing *0 1 S -chase the school s yearbook. ’ st place their orders by Friday The orders are to be made at the 1 high school office. 1 : ■ j

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Truman's Proposal Would Clean Scandal Ridden Department; Remove Politics Washington,' Jap. 2= — President Trumau today proposed a house-cleaning reorganization of the scandal-riddep internal revenue bureau which eliminate the offices Vis the 64 internal revenue collectors. Under\Mr. Truman’s plan, only the commissioner of Internal revenue would be appointed by the president. All other positions would be filled through civil s.ery'ice. ’ Mr. Trmuan’s reorganization plan will be submitted to. congress shortly after it returns next week. The changes become effective if they are not disapproved by either house of congress within 60 days after being submitted. Qrie major change wtptld place all operating functions of the internal revenue bureau irf not more than 25 district ’offices* These offices would be headed by a district commipsiQner selected #’ h civil The changes . may please congress. Filling the 64 internal revenue collectors positions usually is a patronage matter. And one, that causes headaches. Some;senators have urged that the positions be placed under citil service, u Three tax collectors have been fired in the current internal niie investigation. Two have been indicted by federal grand juries. Four collectors have resigned. '•Last year the bureau iired. or suspended, at least 47 other officials throughout the nation in connection with tax irregularities. Mr. Tiniman announced the reorganization as “one of a series of actions I am taking to insure honesty, integrity and fairness in the cpnduct of all. government business.” . : '. ' : u ' J ; Asked how th ( e effect of, the reorganization would clean ’up ettri rent/ conditions in the interna)* revenue bureau, press secretary Joseph Short said, 'T think other steps will be taken in that direc-. tkm.” The president’s program, as outlined in his special statement, w’as designed “to prevent improper conduct in the public service, to protect the government from the insiduous influence petldlers and favor-seekers, and to expose and punish wTong-doer?.’’ The president outlined six basic points which will be carried oitt either administratively or through the reorganization plan Svhich will become effective if not disapproved by either house Within 60 days after it is submitted: 1. The offices of the 64 collectors of internal revenue. will be abol* ished. 3? Only one officer, the commissioner of internal revenue, will be appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate. All other positions will be placed under civil service. • 3., All operating ffanfttions will be placed in not more than 25 dis trict offices, each headed hy t district commissioner who will be responsible to the comhiissioner in Washington. Tho present system of more than 200 f|eld officers reporting to Washington will be abolished. V’ ; 4. “4 strong and vigorous 4nspectlpn service” completely independent of the rest es the bureau will be established. Under this serviep there will be continuing audits ahd inspections “alert to the practices of the influence peddlers and [ 5. The bureau headquarters in Washington ’will be reorganized and operating functions decentralized/ Three assistant commissioners Will replace th® present supervisory setmp, one in charge of tho inspection service, one ih • r ’e olf field operations, and "a third in charge of technical matters such as Isspance of tax forms and, regulations/ ; . » \ 6* “Mor? adequate salaries’ 1 ! will be paid to officials administering the revenue service. \